Organized Religion Quotes

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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people

I don't attend any particular church now. I don't believe in denominations, nor do I believe in organized religion.

One of the things Jesus did was to step aside from the organized religion of his time because it had become corrupt and bogged down with rules. Rules became more important than feeding the hungry.

‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎The mind of God is greater than all the minds of men, so let all men leave the gospel just as God has delivered it unto us.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

Organized religion: The world's largest pyramid scheme.

I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants

I'm an atheist. I'm not neutral about religion, I'm hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Organized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's rights. . . .

Organized religion is good for wars, battles, pissin' and moanin' and not much else.

I'm very, very, very, very spiritual. I grew up in an organized religion, I went to Sunday school as a kid. I'm very grateful that there was religion. I think it instills a good moral compass.

[To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset.

Theology is ignorance with wings.

God save us from religion.

Man is the only animal that knows he's going to die, so we invent a heaven to keep from going crazy. Most people are hypnotized by organized religion from childhood.

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

I'm concerned about organized religion getting away with what it gets away with.

I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people.

We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was worthy of our collective respect.

In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.

To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why I am so hostile to organized religion.

Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

Organized religions by their very natures are misleading.

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

I'd say my religious life has shaped my worldview; my writing, I'd say too, is an extension of the pulpit...it reaches folks who don't care for organized religion in a different way.

My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents.

Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.

I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.

I had always been a reader and a skeptic, so when I was old enough to break away from organized religion, it just came naturally.

You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.

I always fear dogma. I don't like anything that's dogmatic because it becomes purely religious again and I despise any form of organized religion.

the church should just stay out of people's pants.

I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great.

I think I could make the case for any kind of organized religion, but I'm not an expert in those, so let me narrow my focus to talk about Christianity.

When you say you don't get religion, you're just saying that you don't get organized religion.

Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality.

I definitely know the minister Honorable Louis Farrakhan. But I don't really believe in organized religion like that. I don't know what it does for people in the long run.

I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I don't agree with organized religion in that respect.